Opioid stewardship training empowers medical students to address addiction and pain management

The COVID-19 pandemic has made what was already a serious opioid epidemic even worse. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 93,000 people in the United States died from overdoses in 2020, almost 30% more than the year before. A unique training program known as Wake PROUD (Prevent and Reduce Opioid Use Disorder) has become one of the first medical-school-based programs in the country to include Drug Enforcement Administration X-waive (DEA-X) certification to prescribe…
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